Rolf zinkernagel biography of albert

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    Rolf M. Zinkernagel

    Swiss immunologist (born 1944)

    Rolf Martin ZinkernagelAC (born 6 January 1944) is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich.

    Rolf zinkernagel biography of albert

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  • Gairdner Foundation International Award, 1986
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  • William B. Coley Award, 1987
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  • Along with Peter C. Doherty, he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.[2][3]

    Education

    Zinkernagel received his MD degree from the University of Basel in 1970 and his PhD from the Australian National University in 1975.[4]

    Career and research

    Zinkernagel is a member of the Cancer Research Institute Scientific Advisory Council,[5] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[6] The National Academy of Sciences,[7] the American Philosophical Society,[8] and The Academy of Cancer Immunology.

    Zinkernagel was elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of Science also in 1996.

    Awards and honours

    Together with the Austral